Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

Building a castle is difficult. Defending and maintaining it is harder still.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.

Don’t be trapped by dogma

The road to success is always under construction.

The loftiest towers rise from the ground.